Written by: Enzo ,Henry, Clara and Laurie (Grade 4, 2010) American school of Antananarivo.

Our radiated tortoises will be transported to the tortoise village, which is situated in South Madagascar. The village is very big. The tortoises will be separated into two groups, the big tortoises and the smaller ones or else the big ones will stamp on the little ones

In the south of Madagascar, there are people who like to have a roasted tortoise or a tortoise soup. Mr. Herilala, is a scientist who is trying to save the radiated tortoises from being eaten by those people. But luckily there is a village that is going to protect those tortoises.

We really need to do this because the Radiated Tortoises will be extinct if we do not save them. Lonesome George, one of the species of tortoises on the Galapagos Islands is the last of his species to be alive in the island of Pinta and if he dies there would be no more like him. Maybe that could also happen to the Radiated tortoises. So, that’s why Mr. Herilala is trying to save them. If he doesn’t it will be the end of the Radiated Tortoises.

At the village the Radiated tortoises our specimens will have everything they need like food and water. So we really need to save the Radiated tortoises!